Point Mugu w/ Delia & Pedro, March 19, 2022

I’ve found beautiful and worthy challenges at Boney Mountain Trail the two times I’ve visited before this past Saturday, but hadn’t taken on the Point Mugu challenge before, which overlaps some of the same segments to stunning and wonderfully challenging effect. 

Few places I’ve seen make better beginning and end points than La Jolla Canyon, too. I’m psyched on how strong I felt throughout, especially at the end, of my longest run for a few months now with 22+ miles and 3.2k feet of climb. 

Delia and Pedro are amazing friends to share a day like this, and spending time on the beach afterwards was a heavenly way to relax and munch and soak in the experience. 

Delia made a passing reference to how the following day’s scheduled Strawberry Peak Trail run with the Run With Us trail squad would check the “running under fatigue” box for her current ultra training. 

With Born to Run 100 staring right at me from April 15th, the comment pointed directly at more of what I needed as well. 

Strawberry Peak Trail, go!